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Originally Posted by sendler
A couple interesting observtions: Most of the designs maintain a very uniform pressure all up and down the orifice lines, and similar to what we are doing with the streamliner motorcycles and opposite to what is imortantant to cars, there was little priority given to maintaining adherance to the template shape from the side view (the X-1 form for example). So it is apparently quite possible to get extremely good aero as long as all of the points in the 3D slices of the plan view of narrow objects like a canopy or two wheeler adhere to a pure airfoil form even if the side view is less than ideal.
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Exactly!
You'd never do a 'Kamm' canopy.And if limitations limit the aspect ratio of the trailing edge of the canopy,it's still best to fully boat-tail it.
